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Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services, an organization that provides sliding-scale cost legal services for private clients in environmental law matters, is looking for interns. 
This is an amazing organization founded by Emily Collins, a prior director of the Pitt Law environmental clinic. Based on Emily's experience as a clinician, Fair Shake has made training young lawyers and law students a core part of its mission.
Here's the announcement from Fair Shake:
SPRING 2019 LEGAL INTERNSHIPS
Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit law firm designed to incubate legal services start-ups in the area of environmental law for underserved, modest means clients. The purposes of the organization include the education of attorneys in serving modest means clients, increasing equal access to justice, and community empowerment in the Appalachian Basin (New York to North Carolina). Fair Shake advances local, community decision-making about community health, environmental protection and cleanup, and development by providing access to justice for individuals and groups that are currently underserved. Both our Pittsburgh and Akron offices are currently seeking applicants for a Spring Semester 2019 Legal Internship.
The legal internship is a part-time position working under direct attorney supervision. There will be an opportunity for significant legal research and writing. Prior experience or education in the areas of environmental law, land use and zoning, or natural resources law is preferred. Applicants interested in entrepreneurship, sustainability, and public interest environmental law are encouraged to apply. The position is unpaid, but may qualify for academic credit. For further information, visit http://www.fairshake-els.org/. 
For Pittsburgh internships, please submit a letter of interest and resume to our Pennsylvania Office Supervising Attorney Ryan Hamilton at rhamilton@fairshake-els.org by no later than January 2, 2018.
For Akron internships, please submit a letter of interest and resume to our Akron Office Supervising Attorney James Yskamp at jyskamp@fairshake-els.org by no later than January 2, 2018.
Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to diversity in our workplace. 

JURIST 2019 Recruitment
Pitt Law's award-winning legal news service is accepting 1L applications for a limited number of student staff positions. Apart from performing a pro bono public service for readers around the world, JURIST staff members develop numerous skills vital to the practice of law, including research, analysis and writing, working under deadlines in a team environment and developing contacts within the legal profession.
Successful applicants must demonstrate a strong work ethic, responsibility, attention to detail, ability to take criticism and interest in current legal developments. The ability to read a foreign language is a plus. Applicants will undergo a rigorous selection process, including an audition and interview.
Visit jurist.org to learn more about JURIST. To apply, visit jurist.org/apply. Applications and resumes are due by 5:00pm on Thursday, January 24. All applicants must also attend an audition session on Friday, January 25 from 1:00pm - 3:00pm in the Computer Lab on the 4th floor. 
We look forward to meeting you! 

On an annual basis, the Environment & Energy Law Section of the Allegheny County Bar Association awards scholarships to local second- or third-year law students who express and demonstrate an interest in pursuing a career in the field of environment and/or energy in Allegheny County upon graduation.
The awards are typically in the amount of $1,000 to $1,500 and should be used toward educational expenses such as tuition, books, or bar review courses. Eligibility requirements are: (1) the candidate must be a second or third year law student in good standing at an accredited law school who anticipates practicing in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania upon graduation, and (2) the candidate must have taken a minimum of two environmental and/or energy law courses OR taken one environmental or energy law course and have comparable experience such as participation in an environmental law clinic, an internship with an agency, company, non-profit or firm specializing in environmental or energy law, or a law school environmental or energy law society.
The evaluation process consists of submission of a resume and a two-page essay explaining the nature of the applicant’s interest in a career in the field of environment and/or energy law, followed by an interview with the Section’s Scholarship Committee. Applications will be accepted electronically from January 14, 2019 to February 28, 2019 and should be sent directly to Jessica Rosenblatt, Esq. using the contact information below. Awards are expected to be made in April or May of 2019.
For more information and/or to apply, please contact: Jessica Rosenblatt, Esq., rosenblattjl@gmail.com.

Last year, Pitt Law and Duquesne collaborated to offer the First Annual Three Rivers Tech and IP Colloquium, hosted at University of Pittsburgh School of Law. To carry on this new tradition, Duquesne School of Law will host the second edition of this event on Friday, January 25, 2019.
This year the topic of technology is included, broadening participation and paper topics for presenters. The goal remains the same: to allow IP (and now law & tech) researchers and teachers with connections to the region to gather, share their work, critique and improve it, and build a fellowship of similarly-situated colleagues.  The format enables the sharing of works in progress with the opportunity for extended conversations about individual papers.
For IP, the subject matter domain includes:  patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, design rights, rights of publicity, broadcast rights, chip designs, vessel hulls, and related issues.  Also welcomed are law and tech subject matter, which includes: privacy law, technology ethics, regulation, fintech, cybersecurity, AI, blockchain, and robots.  Interdisciplinary applications are welcome (law and economics, STS, cultural theory, etc.; and/or other legal disciplines, such as corporate law, commercial law, employment law, and antitrust law).
Full-time faculty teachers and researchers in IP and tech at the region's law schools are welcome. Full-time faculty teachers and researchers in IP and tech will participate.
Presenters:
Martin Skladany (Penn State)
Mike Madison (Pitt)
Daniel Brean (Akron)
Matt Bartholomew (Buffalo)
Jacqui Lipton (Pitt)
Brian Frye (University of Kentucky)
Agnieszka McPeak (Duquesne)
Richard Heppner (Duquesne)
Jim Dilmore (Duquesne)

The York County Bar Association (YCBA) and, its charitable arm, the York County Bar Foundation (YCBF) believe that, although it is important to promote more minorities to senior level positions within the legal profession, those efforts will be hampered if there are still too few minorities who decide to enter the profession in the first place. Beginning in 2005, the YCBA convened its Diversity Committee to look at ways in which diversity in the legal profession could be enhanced. Programs were initiated to encourage minority students to consider law-related employment within the York community. In 2007, the Diversity Committee encouraged the Bar Foundation to establish the Clarence “Chuck” N. Patterson Diversity Internship Scholarship program and began efforts to raise funds for this purpose. The internship is named after the late Honorable Clarence Nicholas Patterson, Jr., who was a pioneer for diversity and served as York County’s first African-American judge.
The Clarence “Chuck” N. Patterson Diversity Internship Scholarship Program provides internship opportunities for eligible minority first or second year, full-time law students. Interns receive $6,000 for a 10-week long summer internship in York County and opportunity to attend York County Bar Association activities and meet other York County Bar members. Past applicants have been placed with the Office of the Public Defender but other options are also being explored. The deadline for submission of application materials has been extended to Friday, February 15, 2019.
Application

Pitt Cyber (the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security) will host its first student hackathon on Friday and Saturday March 22 and 23 and is actively looking for volunteer student participants from Pitt Law, the School of Computing and Information (SCI), and GSPIA. 
The theme of the program is developing technology solutions to combat human trafficking. 
No technology background or experience is required!
For more information and to sign up, visit https://www.cyber.pitt.edu/hacking4humanity.

The Asian Pacific American Bar Association-PA (APABA-PA) and the Philadelphia Bar Foundation are once again accepting applications for Judge William M. Marutani Fellows. The Fellowship is awarded to 1L or 2L Asian Pacific American students in Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia/Delaware Valley region who will be working at a public interest organization or government agency (including the judiciary) this upcoming summer. The internship must be in Pennsylvania or the Philadelphia/Delaware Valley area. A student may be awarded up to $5,000 and is eligible even if she or he receives other funding.
Applications and supporting documents should be emailed to MF@philabarfoundation.org. Submit the application by 4:00 PM on Friday, March 8, 2019.
For more information, please visit PittLawWorks.

Pitt Law 2L Receives Global Student Leadership Award
Katrina Joy Harrison has been named the 2019 Recipient of the Excellence in Diversity & Inclusion Global Student Leadership Award for the Graduate Category. This year’s recipients have demonstrated a commitment to advancing diversity and inclusive excellence within international education on an individual, institutional, and organizational level.
"Katrina is one of the most gifted advisors in international education. Her sensitivity around and commitment to diversity and inclusion have empowered hundreds of students to maximize cultural learnings, both at home and abroad. Her intelligence, humor, and grace set the bar high for professionals and students alike, and she continues to serve as an inspiration through her contributions in many areas. We are grateful to work with her," said Dr. Sarah Wagner, VIH Program Director at the University of Pittsburgh.
The awardees and their work will be recognized during the annual Awards Dinner at the 7th Annual Diversity Abroad Conference, Equity & Opportunity Through Inclusive Global Education in Boston, MA  on March 4, 2019.
Read more here: https://www.diversitynetwork.org/news/news.asp?id=436521

Come attend one or more informational sessions!
March 5 at 12:30 p.m. and again at 1 p.m.
International & Comparative Law Certificate, Room 107
Health Law Certificate, Room 109
Intellectual Property and Technology Law Certificate, Room 113
Gismondi Civil Litigation Certificate, Room G12
Public Policy Concentration, Cappy Room
Tax Concentration, Room G13
March 21 at 12:30 p.m. and again at 1 p.m.
Environmental Law Certificate, Room G18

1L students are reminded of a mandatory 1L curricular planning workshop on March 19, to be held in the Teplitz Courtroom, at 12:30 pm. The session will not last longer than one hour, and you can expect to hear a great deal of useful information respecting planning your courses over the next two upcoming years. Dean Hamoudi looks forward to seeing you then.